Buenos Aires_ The United States president Barack Obama, concluded today his official visit to Buenos Aires on a day when millions of Argentines celebrate the 40th anniversary of the military coup of 1976 with demonstrations and marches throughout the country, Prensa Latina reported.

The president says goodbye to Buenos Aires with a visit to the Memorial Park to honor the victims of state terrorism during the civil-military dictatorship responsible for 30 thousand missing.

As a gesture he brought new declassified files with military and intelligence documentation about that dark stage in Argentine, but did not express a clear apology, at least in the joint press conference made the day before in the Casa Rosada.

That annoyed the human rights organizations. They acknowledged the gesture of the declassification of documents, but felt very unwelcome his presence in such a sensitive date for Argentines.

The US president called Macri to turn Argentina into a universal US ally, and described as very impressive the economic adjustment policy applied in only 100 days in office.

Apart from the presidential protocol, they signed four cooperation agreements and an understanding memorandum in a ceremony at San Martin Palace chaired by Chancellor Susana Malcorra and US Ambassador Noah Mamet.

Today there will surely be many slogans, from 14:00 local time hundreds of thousands of people will begin to converge towards the assembly points to march to the Plaza de Mayo to commemorate the Day of Memory, Truth and Justice, and reiterate again "never again" to dictatorship.

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